What is the last thing you made? (pics pls)

There’s foam/padding on those, right?

Little bit of felt glued into the notch 🙂

Got our local agricultural show on the weekend so thought I would throw something together for the “article made of metal” class. Have always wanted to do something with the ever growing pile of scrap and useless offcuts I seem not able to throw away so ….. a pair of old land rover brake disks, a few old mower blades, some useless short bits of box and some past-their-best bike bits got stuck together over the course of a couple of hours in the workshop on a rainy day in Wales. And I know the patio is a mess 🙂

^^^ neads a chain device. ^^^

Yep, slack chain and no foot retention!

Papercut maps from open street map data

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Quick project with my five-year-old at the weekend…

IMG_20170803_070842 by W Hyde[/url], on Flickr[/img]

IMG_20170803_070856 by W Hyde[/url], on Flickr

He did most of the work himself – used his pruning saw to cut a branch (from a prunus/flowering cherry), then used the mitre saw to tidy the ends and chop into 150mm lengths. We measured the diameter of the crayons we were using and picked the right size drill bit, which was 8mm. He drilled the holes in each end (shallow hole in the flat end, and about a 60mm hole in what was going to be the pointy end – note to anyone making these, at this point you will want to mark which hole is which, as they look the same once filled with wax…).

Tried two methods for filling. First was a bit of glue in the hole then sliding the crayons in. This was a bit hit and miss, as the crayons were about 8.1mm so were very tight in some holes. Other holes were a bit larger due the variability in the boy’s drilling skills 🙂 and the crayons were a bit loose as the glue wasn’t keen on sticking to green wood.

The next method we tried was using a small stainless saucepan with a pouring lip, pop the crayons in and apply a heat gun. Then pour the molten wax into the holes. This is by far the easiest method, and results in the ‘lead’ being totally secure and well-fixed into the hole. You don’t have to worry about matching the hole diameter to the crayons, or glue not setting against green wood etc.

After that I used a knife to sharpen them (this is where you need to know in advance which end has the deep hole).

He took them to ‘show and tell’ at school, and said he’d chopped them from the pencil tree we have in our garden 😀

ebygomm – Member

Papercut maps from open street map dataReally nice! Laser-cut of hand cut?

WillH – Member

Quick project with my five-year-old at the weekend…Look great!

Really nice! Laser-cut or hand cut?

Neither, cut with a silhouette portrait, sort of like a printer with a knife/blade

Testing imgur for the first time!

Made a storytelling chair for my wife’s pre-school……not finished yet.

Story telling chair from scaffold boards

A router plane.

WillH – excellent idea!

this weighed 88kg when i put it on

and 1.88kg when i took it off!!

I finished the main structure of our oak framed garden room yesterday. It’s really just a posh conservatory, about 3.5m x 7m. We will have a little snug reading corner with a woodburner and a large dining room type area.

Garden Room by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Garden Room by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

Garden Room by Scgwhite[/url], on Flickr

This has been a really fun project, but really hard and heavy work in places – the purlins alone are about 140kgs each, and each rafter (50kgs) had to be lifted into place and lowered (by hand) three times for cuts and holes to be marked. There is about 3000kgs of oak in total, and it has taken about four months of evenings and weekends. I designed it using Sketchup and everything was manufactured at home, including all the oak pegs and curved braces. Going full chat, I was generating a wheelbarrow-full of sawdust and shavings a day.

The frame will be shot blasted next week to remove all the water staining, and then the roof and glazing will make it watertight. Lots still to do, but I’m getting there!

this weighed 88kg when i put it on

and 1.88kg when i took it off!!Pictures of the finished job please.

Pictures of the finished job please.

He can’t see it due to the swarf pile!

I finished the main structure of our oak framed garden room yesterday.

Absolutely brilliant. Sounds like back-breaking work, but if it’s anything like my shed, every time you use it will be a moment of pure satisfaction.

This has been a really fun project, but really hard and heavy work in places – the purlins alone are about 140kgs each, and each rafter (50kgs) had to be lifted into place and lowered (by hand) three times for cuts and holes to be marked. There is about 3000kgs of oak in total, and it has taken about four months of evenings and weekends. I designed it using Sketchup and everything was manufactured at home, including all the oak pegs and curved braces. Going full chat, I was generating a wheelbarrow-full of sawdust and shavings a day.

I haven’t the faintest idea how anyone manages to do something like that. I was pleased when I built a shed door.

thats not the same bit but part of the final thing

Jamie, That’s never going to fit, the top right hole is the wrong size! 🙄
Mesmerizing watching that take shape, to someone who doesn’t do it all day.

Siwhite that is beautiful! Pics as it progresses please.

Having been involved in some green oak whittling lately I have a lot of respect for anyone lifting them buggers!

I haven’t the faintest idea how anyone manages to do something like that. I was pleased when I built a shed door.

I have no idea how you did that. I put a wanted ad on freecycle when I needed a new a shed door.

Part of remodelling the garden involved making a climbing frame/swing/wendy house thing for our daughter.

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Just to note, the swing cross bar is level; it’s the garden and fence that are not level.

Made some roof bar thingies to help my Dad get his canoe onto the car roof singlehandedly. Couple of inserts into the end of the roofbars which have bearings as rollers, and the blue bars have bearings at the other end to roll along the bars. Bits of cord hold it in position for loading. Not used in anger yet. Think his door mirror might be at risk…

Bloody hell siwhite! What a thing of beauty, I’m gobsmacked that someone can do this during their down time.

Chapeau indeed!

The wife and child are away for a couple of days so I finally got a chance try painting again after a few years break.

Calvin and Hobbes using watercolour and indian ink. It’s not as good as most of the painters on here but I like it.

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CAD’ed and 3D printed a mount for my Magicshine-818, it now points backwards (on a 74deg seatpost) rather than at the ground. Printed in Ninjaflex so it simply grips the seatpost

Still isn’t quite right, mk3* will hopefully have a smoother finish if I tweek the E-axis on the printer slightly.

2017-08-25_01-24-31 by thisisnotaspoon[/url], on Flickr

*mk1 didn’t fit the light properly.

i turned 350kg of billet into 12kg of billet…

i turned 350kg of billet into 12kg of billet…

Is there a point at which you say “You’d be better off with something other than a CNC mill?”

Getting to grips with 3D printing and Fusion 360.

Printed some signs to go in the local pub where some of the local clubs I’m involved with frequent.

Out of interest AlexSimon, what do the signs cost to make? How long do they take?

Thisisnotaspoon
Such as?

porter_jamie – Member

i turned 350kg of billet into 12kg of billet…

What is that and what stops it being a noodle?

TheDTs – Member

Out of interest AlexSimon, what do the signs cost to make? How long do they take? In terms of filament it’s about 50p. Print time is 9 hours on my printer. Design time was about 2 hours in the 3D realm after I’d already designed the logos.

Obviously didn’t make it completely from scratch, but first time trying anything like this. Moment of truth will be about 6.00pm tonight when it should be finished curing and I will be tentatively unwrapping it…

2017-09-01_03-16-39 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

2017-09-01_03-18-34 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

Well, it came off the jig in one piece. going to need a fair bit of work with the finger sander to get it looking less agricultural.

IMG_20170901_210224 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

But at least it’s fairly straight…

IMG_20170901_210449 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

Aaaggghhh!!!

Started the clean up and rough shaping today (thankfully I got a finger sander for this – wouldn’t want to tackle it by hand!).

IMG_20170903_120645 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

All was going well until I thought I’d trial fit the rear wheel… Oh dear…

IMG_20170903_121216 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr

No more sanding until I’ve worked out whether I can fix that by bending the dropouts a bit since I can’t move the frame itself (will have to wait ’til I’m back at school with some proper vices).

That’s a shame.
Can you file out the drop out a bit? I’d rather do that then bend them.

Actually, that might be a better idea. Thanks. I’ll try that first.

Only slight further issue is that it’s out in the other axis too (this is the view from underneath).

2017-09-03_04-08-43 by Rob P[/url], on Flickr